1A person or thing that continues something or maintains continuity.
继续者；继承者；持续物
the popes succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule
Example sentencesExamples
From its very first days as a continuator of the wartime OSS, the ranks of the Agency were dominated by members of the liberal establishment.
The second sees in him a continuator of speculative theology - that is, a theologian who had to switch languages in order to speak of Greek philosophy.
As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour reformism.
This Germanic people saw themselves as the continuators of the weakened Imperial power.
1.1A person who writes a continuation of another's work.
（为他人作品）写续篇者
the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon
Example sentencesExamples
‘In my notions about the State,’ he wrote to his mother in February 1864, ‘I am quite papa's son, and his continuator.’
Definition of continuator in US English:
continuator
nounkənˈtinyəˌwādərkənˈtɪnjəˌweɪdər
1A person or thing that continues something or maintains continuity.
继续者；继承者；持续物
the popes succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule
Example sentencesExamples
From its very first days as a continuator of the wartime OSS, the ranks of the Agency were dominated by members of the liberal establishment.
As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour reformism.
This Germanic people saw themselves as the continuators of the weakened Imperial power.
The second sees in him a continuator of speculative theology - that is, a theologian who had to switch languages in order to speak of Greek philosophy.
1.1A person who writes a continuation of another's work.
（为他人作品）写续篇者
the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon
Example sentencesExamples
‘In my notions about the State,’ he wrote to his mother in February 1864, ‘I am quite papa's son, and his continuator.’